nickbobo93

Thank you, will wipe and recreate later today and let you know if i run into any issues!

Rebooted, did the command and it had no output (im assuming means it worked). Started the array, it started but it says unmountable disk (as you said it would), and i see all my data under /mnt/zfs

Hello, after spending about 3 weeks messing with unraid and getting things setup i was pretty satisfied with the setup enough to go ahead and purchase a license. But today, i was trying to clean up some files by deleting videos on my zfs share and when id try deleting more than a few files (i say a few, i didn't try extensively but i could delete up to 5 files at once) my explorer would hang. This was done over smb share that i mapped on my windows pc. I gave it up to 30 minutes and no response trying to delete 400ish gb of files. Nothing on my unraid machine seemed alarming so i tried restarting it. When i get back to the dashboard and logged in i try to start array and it says array has started but still "mounting disks" and this goes on for at least an hour. And once i try to start the array i can't properly shutdown the machine. I am forced to hard shutdown/reboot. I have seen a couple threads say they deleted plugins until they found the culprit. I have tried uninstalling all plugins (except CA, appdata backup, and zfs master). Still same issue when i reboot and try to start array. I tried checking the safe mode option and force rebooting and the system says its in safe mode. Still same thing when i try starting array. I force reboot in safe mode again and this time try starting array in maintenance mode. Same result and each time i try to wait at least 10 minutes inbetween as the array would usually (when it was working) startup in less than a minute. I have diagnostics for each of my attempts and hoping someone can help point me to where i can look to fix this issue. I have also turned off smb, turned off docker, and ssh to try to minimize the amount of things that would interact with the zfs pool when being mounted. Things i have not done (but will do tomorrow if i don't find any other answer that works) update from 7.1.1 to 7.1.2 and try reseating all parts. in_safe_mode_array_started_but_disks_not_mounted.zip restarted_in_safe_mode_array_started_in_maintenance_mode.zip array_started_but_disks_not_mounted.zip just_restarted_array_not_started.zip

Thanks a lot! I have implemented the script (actually fairly easy to do when reading the directions for user scripts) so now i have scrubbing and snapshots. Tomorrow i will watch those videos and learn more. I appreciate your help and patience.

Thank you! I have thoroughly read through both of your replies and made a lot of the recommended changes. I would say the only changes i have not made (as they are currently not applicable) is setting up nfs/ssh/and sftp fail2ban. I have no current need for nfs connections, don't plan on sshing to my unraid machine, and wont be sftping. I don't think what you said is bad advice and i will definitely keep them in mind if the time comes for me to need these services. This is my new current main screen with zfs setup and using data sets. Its not 1:1 how you explained i should set it up as i have my data/config files in different folders but i do have the cloud and backup datasets and think those will be useful. And this is my shares page: The only question i so far have i guess is why is zfs master showing 50.9tb but the zfs pool itself shows 23.2? is that intended or?

I just wanna say i appreciate the help! I looked at this briefly and it seems super in depth which i like. Im at work right now so ill view it more in depth later and ill get back to you if i have any questions or issues!

Alright so i started over and didn't go with array and did a zfs pool as you suggested (set it up as raidz2 for more redundancy), have my cache pool, no shares/data sets, installed all the plugins you suggested in your first post linked thread. As for backups/snapshots and the like ill worry about that after the fact cause right now i don't have any data to snapshot/backup and i have an external machine i will back up everything to once i get my unraid setup and going. My question is: where do i go from here? 1. How do i move my data from my gaming pc to unraid? do i just make a share (or dataset?) and map it to my gaming pc and move it over? 2. make sure i have my docker containers point to that data 3. do i still need mover? 4. will i just use my cache pool for docker configs and the zfs pool for the actual data? i appreciate your help so far! Let me know if you need anything to help you help me.

Heya, thanks, i appreciate you taking time to help me with this. First off, yes i went the array (2 disks, 2 parity) route with cache pool (two 1tb in raid) as seen in the pictures i have attached. Second, I created data share to temporarily store data then have mover move it from cache to array. I then realized i need my data to be seen by my docker containers and i cannot move my data onto my "data" share as it will fill up the 1tb cache and reduce its life span. So, i created the "tmp_data" share that is directly on the array, mapped it to a letter on my gaming pc that has the 14tb drive in it with all my current data that i want on my unraid system, used robocopy to move it all from gaming pc drive to unraid array. Now i have the data on "tmp_data" share and not the "data" share where my docker configs are pointed to. Third, if i have to start all over its no big deal, i have backups of all my docker containers, i still have my data on my 14tb in my gaming pc, nothing is dire. I'm still trying to learn unraid and figure out a "best setup" for my use case. Let me know what else you need to help. I have read the documents and thread you have attached in your reply by the way, thank you.

Setup: Hello all, I started my unraid build a couple of weeks ago and built my pc, put unraid on the usb and started my journey. I tried doing a bunch of research and "best practice" seemed to be have an array but use a cache drive to move data onto the array (when? That is preference) which i did just that. Put in four 14tb 3.5 hdd's (2 disks for parity), two 1tb nvme's in raid for a cache drive. I setup an appdata folder to hold my docker configs and have /data on cache to move to array after a day. In theory this would download data to cache then after a day it would move to array and not break links. Great it should be all setup. Problem: I needed to move all my data that is stored on a 14tb drive in my gaming pc for temporary storage until my unraid was setup. Problem is, i couldnt move onto the cache share as it would fill up the 1tb and im not sure if i can overflow into the array with that? Plus its almost 14tb so that would be a lot of wasted writing to an nvme drive. So in my quick thinking i just made a share directly on the array itself and robocopied from the 14tb to my array that i mapped onto my gaming pc. After about 2 days its all on there. My current problem is though, i dont know how to fix my setup to have my cache drive know of the existing data and continue working with my docker containers to grab downloads and after a day move it onto the array. Any help would be appreciated. I didnt get to have a thorough look through everything and how to set it up as i just got home last night and now im at work but i thought id throw the question out there in case anyone would have a quick and obvious solution im missing (im new and still learning).